Monday again. No Lit Kid. Trust me when I say that my compulsion to talk about children’s books is not on the wane. It’s just been a very busy week and weekend. Dan led a trip to a certain brick-building type film yesterday, leaving me the house to myself for a few hours. What normally …
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Friday phrases: Today I saw a little worm
Fairly recently, Junior Reader and I were working through the week’s reading book sent home from school. Now we’ve moved on a bit, it tends to be a collection of things in the book: sometimes non-fiction, sometimes longer stories. Sometimes, a poem or two. So I was very happy to see one I knew, and …
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Lit Kid: pirates ahoy!
If there’s one post I ought to be able to write in my sleep, it would be about pirates, and books to do with pirates. (After three days’ hard spring cleaning, I might just fall asleep while writing, so let’s keep it to an easy topic.) I like it when a child has a particular, …
Friday phrases: happy as kings
I don’t generally post on Fridays. I could, of course. I have, too, back at the stage of writing a post every day. But I mostly post in the evenings. It’s down time; when I read blogs, look on Facebook. It makes it easy to post something, stick a link to it on Facebook, and …
Stocking the shelves
Some nights, it’s hard to know what to write. Some nights, it flows. — Some nights, you pour your heart into the words – and people don’t seem to read them. (It’s OK that they don’t laugh at the same jokes, really. I’m still putting them in though.) — Some nights, you come home and …